Accidentally Deleted Movie, or Moved it to Trash

I finished a movie in iMovie and apparently deleted it or perhaps moved it to trash. Is there a different trash can in iMovie, different than the trash on my mac?
Is there a way to restore the movie?

I just ran a quick test with interesting results. I deleted an iMovie 9 Event, found it in Trash, copied it to a folder outside of Trash, then used File/Import/Movies and found the undeleted folder. I selected Copy, not Move (I didn't trust what may happen by moving & possibly losing the file). It appears the movie files are at the top level (and are the largest files). I selected ONE file and it imported okay. I then attempted to import the other 3 files and after a long processing wait, none appeared in the Event (no idea where they went or why it didn't work). However, when I imported the files individually, they each appeared in the desired Event. This appears to be how we undelete an Event.
I hope you still have the files in the Trash for this to work. Good luck.

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